The Sun. — London, England, 1809-11-14 00:00:00

was a fate which usually falls to the lot of the das- tardy. To tender their calamity more poignant, these indigent shepherds found themselves involved in the imme❑se &hf of twenty millions of florins. The Einperor of Austria did what he could to al leviate this heavy misfortune; he stipulated, that the privileges of the Tyrolese and Voralbergers should remain entire. Bui is there any one so cre dulous, or so uninformed attic grand events of the day, as to suppose that Buonaparte could beebobn - d by any ene,agements Faithful only to his usual treac-hery„• he no sooner -had-the invincible Tyrolese and Voralbergers in his grasp, than he imposed upon them . contributions of every' kind, without remitting 3 single creurier ; and 'having taken-thi4-barbarous retenge, he surrendered them to his recently created King of Bavaria. • • This Prince, in his•turn; made -a point of impo verishing and oppressing his nekkacqUisitjoris. • Not: satisfied with raising heavy contributions,• over 0re...., their ancient constitution, which they had observed' for a series of ages; abolished the repre sentative States, in oilier to obstruct -the way to all popular temonstrances, and seized the provincial,. pupillary, and credit-tunds. • He . moreover confis- - cated all •ecclesiastical property, abolished-the pre- Liciei , atid convents, and sold all public buildings to replenish his empty coffers. Wirat. , proved more paiavul to the inhabitants than all these oppressions, was the disposal oft he T anCient and original castle of the Counts of t heTyrol. . • ' livery successive month was marked with a list of new exactions and• taxes, that were levied with the utmost: rigotir. Coin had become ' uncommonly scarce, •and the Bavarian Government - enhanced the emoarrassmenr, arising front this circumstance, by depreciating the Austrian bank-hills, Which were still in circulation, to one ball of their' nominal va lue.. , This operation caused io the countries in quz,- tion a fresh loss, amounting to at least twenty mil lions of florins. To. crown all these oppressive measures, Bavaria had it in contemplation to change the very names of the provinces..ol Tyrol and Voralberg, by calling them after the - prinCipal rivers, and incorporating than w:th lrer own dominions. • • Tyese excessive hardships lasted three years. Pe titions and complaints were not Only rejected, but by an. express law •absolutely prohibited. When, therefore, in the beginning of the current year, it appeared certain that a Dew contest between Austria and France was inevitable, the intellitsence was greeted by the poor Tyroleans arid Voralbergers, as the rising sun is. hailed by the shepherd. Scarce ly had they received the news of the actual move ments ot .the two hostile armies, before they rose in a mass. Their .outset .was brilliant beyond expeda tion.- The troops. of the enemy sent against them consisted of 27,000 men, whom they resolutely at. tasked in all points. Their victory was complete ; those of . the enemy who escaped with their lives being either wounded or taken prisoners. Among .the latter were 'two General§ ; the sharpshooters took, besides,. a -quantity of cannon, ;ammunition, areas, and several stand .of colours: This tnemor -Ole battle was fought on •10tb and I ith of April last. •The merit of it belongeti solely •to the valorous inhabitants of the Tyrol and Voralherg ; for the re gular Austrian army, hastening to- their relief, did tot join• them beforeihe 13th of April ;. it was •re coved by -the conquerors whit drums beating and colours flying,, White ot -" long live our. U6iok hitYperOr•Flancis-,- rent the air. • Tilot: who :know the• mildness of Buonaparte's temper ,will aole to conceive an idea of the im prssston Which this news made upon .him. Ho in vaatly directed Marshal Leteovre„ : supported by the i3avartan , Generals Wreoev,; . Deroy . ,,.and Sibbein, at .1.4 e Llead ut 24,000, men,. in' watch against :the Tyrolese by the way of Salzburg. General Rusca, v.itt•ti 8000 men, was .ordered to advance troin .white General .Ferrea approached from Carinthia, and Uenerat ..Viarmont trout Bavaria and Suabia, with trout six to seven thousand troops more. ~This was certainty a tortuntableifurce, which would'have con quered, and even annihilated any other two nations of equal numbers. The conflict, indeed, was ob suna:e and terrible. But the comics were defeat ed, ail out Lefebvre, whose force was too large, accts , hose detastations and cruelties were such as to spread terror every where: , He burnt towns and and..gave -quarter to no one. The aged wet', suspended from trees, and then shot. The pregnant . women - Were even ript up, and their breasts cut off, while their embryos were crammed Mown;their ton - oats to put au ettct to the shrieks and nauaningsol the wretched victims. If a Tyrolese or V..ratberger, bearing arms,.'had the misfortune to fail into their hands, they immediately tore out his tocgue. The children were cut down without tneicy, and most. frequently carried about, trans fixed with bayonets. A number of these innocents i•appening to return from school,- were met with, and driven by these monsters into some barns; and butut alive. , • Lefebvre and his. cannibals imagined to be alie to intirma.ite the Tyrolese and Voralbergers by such cruelties ; but tbey.ihad the very opposite etied.— The Tyrolese sharpshooters now 'resembled blood= thirsty .lions they. rushed upon Letebvre, and _totally defeated him ; thousands of the enemy were slain ; and toe General, accompanied only by a few remnants of his great force, sought safety in an ig nominious flight, direetcd towards Vienna. The result of this complete victory. was, that the , Ty rot. and Voraiberg, being now tree from! their in vaders, served as an asylum to those Austrian pri _sorters who had been taken by the French at Ratis : bon, Aspen), and Esslingen, and who found little chilicuity.in making their e..cape. About ten thou . s.ind profited by this opportunity; -they werenearly and . the expence of (loathing- th.d arming tb,in anew piosed no small burden to their hosim . table friends.- . Another advantage of this viaory displayed itself -in the superior courage.with which it inspired the cotiqt.erors. lite) , now sallied forth beyond their :,froniters to seek the enemy. In Bavaria they ad- Nalco; as far as Munich, the ppital city. In Suabia they nn... Kempton, pushing 9a beyond Memining and Ul.n. In Lay tiny proceede,d, to 'within , a few -miles of Verona ; and some corps over-ran Ca tanhia and Salzburg, then airtady in the' power of ,t he t nenuy, so as to become to a great degree masters of th s..:oantries. twithsianding these successes, the conquerors Wert ploy cruelties or acts of oppress;ol,-r- Not a sinjJ house was pillaged by them, not a barn laid in ashes. No peasant was ever taken prisoner . or insulted. The woonded enemies were partieu lar.y taken care of.: It. was the usual practice to carry thern.on tiheir shouldersintr) soine house. 'riie Tyrolese 'and .3.7o,alberL_Li%.; ot2ghout trot* hon9u4ile.:lmbition', to shame their:croei en e mies, and outlyinge t item of tl+e superfor humanity 'of poor German mountaineers. Neither France nor any of :per allies can adduce single instance of then - pri • soneir baying. .been ill-treated either. in the Tyrol - or Voralberg, though the prisoners frorn either country were tortured, murdered, or Jll-used by the French. All these glorious achievements, .however, , could • not arrest_ the progress or the enemy in other.quar , ters. Jo fine, an armistice was again concluded. — The corpS of Austrian troops left in the Tyrol, and consisting tor the 'most part of the above-mentioned refugees,' was suddenly' recalled, and carried away all the ordnance and ammunition which the Tyrolese had taken. Thus the latter found themselVes com pelled-th abandon their convests, and satisfy them . selves with. guarding their own frontiers. Lefebvre, Ruscd, Ferroti, and other Generals, pe netrated'unce more'as as luspruck, the capital of the Tylol,•repe!tting their former devastations and cruelties. But the• in.liguation excited by the 're appearauce of those itthwnau chiefs was such, that thd.very .woolen, Whose business had hitherto been confined to conveying the prisoners to places at safe ty, assembled -in numbers,.'and put to. death 6-to of enemy near . Lande4 and thong!) the whole force of the enemy amotMted to about 30,000, they were attacked by the Tyrolese and Voralbeigers,who. had risen en nise, with Such irresistible Wry, that ttiogi Who saved themselves by flight were pursued to a great distance, so as to be unable, during the space at 24 hours, to allay their thirst with a draught of water.. It was in vain that Buonaparte, on hearing this new disaster of his arins,.detaehed Marshals Mac donald 'arid Bessieres, .with picked troop s, against the Tyrolese. .They were routed, and obliged to return. From the concurring accounts in the Dulch i Ger-: man, and French Papers, which are copied into the daily prints of London, it is placed beyond all doubt, that the Tyrolese and Vuraibergers persevere in th e ir obstinate xesistance to the.Freoch and their Allies. They are indeed now free, but at the expence Of very uncommon sacrifices. Number, of thenimouth their fathers, brothers, and-sons, not slain in battle, but for the most part murdered in the most inhuman manner. Four towns and 26,flopridhing villages are reduced to heaps of ashes.--not to mention the de struclioof a large Lumber of tiNached s - cottages.— These clamities are felt more ,sensibly in a climate which is very far from bt ing.miid. The tnount,tins of the Tyrol and Voralberg have; ever since the be . - ginning of October, been • covered wit it' scow and ice. The inhabitants, though accustomedto sub sist npowthe hardest' fare, can; after so trnny devast ations,, pillages, conflagrations, and hardships of ' every kind, scarcely get whelk:withal to satisfy the cravings of nature. Multitti,les at this moMent are happy in being allowed some little corner in a crowd ed barn, stable, or hut. 2 . , In spite of all these sufferings, they are fully deter- mined never to listen to any actod.mkadatSon with Buonaparte, or conient to be again governed by the iron sceptre of 'Bavaria: Thi4 deteriiination, though' it may appear rash, can be -eutisfado rily accounted for - from the above stated cruel ti es, exa&ions, and oppressions.- Ail, to .a man, trained to the . most skilful use of the rifle; inured to the inclemencies of the seasons ; _defunde.d.•by huge mountains inaccessible to none but themselves; sur rounded in every direction by,•and allied to nioun taineers, that are animated With7.the same love of in dependence ; reared up and happy in poverty ; re _ ligions ; virtuous from habit; utter strangers to luxury., preferring their barren mountains to the most fruitful soils—and, above all, remembering the horrible outrages committed by the order ot Buqua parte, to whom they have to oppose one hundred and. _fifty thousand sharp-shooters, in a country where no regular armies can aft, and where they, and they alone know the paths to procure supplies, if they have but the means of purchasing them. — Such a hardy, stubborn;and . athletic race *Of Men, are very formidableenemies. Such they have cer-, tainly proved to France, and no peace WhiCh their beloved Prince may have been compelled to- enter into will induce them to become a party to it. They are firmly resolved either to conquer or die. SCHOb.NLCHEit. MULLEK,-14Jjta. London', Nov. x 3, 18..9. MAILS. ARRIVED—I Dublin, z Waterford. Du g --1 Gottenburgh, z Dublin, z Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWE.LVEL O'CLOCK. Consols ----- 4-- • - - 7011` TEI E SU - N. SOLEM QUIS DICLRE FALSUM AUDEATI LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1809. We stopped the . Press yesterday. to state, that a Moniteur had been received in London, which stated that an a&ion had taken place in th'e Mediter ranean, in which the French had lo,t six sail of the line aad the English four.—We have not ,seen the Paper in question, but the quarter from which we received the account leaves us no room to doubt the fad. We may therefore exped every hour to re ceive the intelligence of another glorious naval vic tory.---As to the assertion that we have lost four sad of the line, we are not much .alarmed at'it, for the French in all our actions have destroyed several of Snips—upon paper ! have been received from.. Petcrsbuigh, whit: state, that nt,twithstandi,ng the repeated and urgellt tern mstrances cf tie Fren:h Minister, the Erilperor ALEXANDER has not yet ventured entirely to clOse his ports against Great Britain. The dis contents very, openly thanifested in Russia, in cog•e .quenee of the loss of trade, hate probably deterred the Emperor ALEXANDER from enforcing his own Decrees with rigour. An Order has lately been issued in France, for permitting British Females detained in France to re turn borne. In• consequence of this permission, a number of Ladies have arrived within these ,two days from France, in an American vessel. A,Gen . tleman who had also been detained, 'contrived to make his escape, and came over in the same vessel. They all- confirm the account of BUONAPARTE'S epilepsy, - and they state, that he is remaining at Foniainbleau (or the recovery of his health. The inhabitants of these parts of France through which they passed; are described as being in a state of the utmost wretchedness, but such is the t 3 ranny un der which they labour, that they are almost afraid to indulge in the melancholy privikge of complaint. The Tithes having threatened to put in his answer to our statement respecting the Milford, to-morrow, induces us to say 'a little more on the subjed to-day, which the writer will perhaps endeavour to anvver the day after to-morrow, for we are perfeCtly well aware that he must be dumb until he consults his oracle. We can assure him, however, en passant, that he is totally mistaken in calling us the " Advo cates for the Admiralty," -which we conceive does not require an advOcate on the present occasion : he would - be nearer the mark in designating us by the title of " DeteElors' of Calumny."— We also think it light to observe, that in the haste of answering a long paragraph in the Times, . We inadvertently stated JACOBS to havt - : been the COntraetor for building the - Sp' elicer, instead of the Milford, which,. though an inaccuracy, is of no importance to the , merits of the question. Both the ild• fife Milford are BAtt ships. The exact.expence of building the latter we are now enabled to iay before our' Readers, c , getter with the Comparative ekpence of butkting a similar ship contrael in the merchant, yards. , . tonnage of the•Milrord, 1926 tons, wbjcli, if built by i:ontrao it the prit'x given when 4, ,-0a,,-. ,616 o 0 sheAws taken in hand, 361. per ton, v% ould : , haye cost . . - . . - - , The total•expease of building c. 3 ,4 8, ,, : _ •• the Milford - -- - , 0 " IP . . , To this stint add the) .. . .. • rent•for 4 years otl› ; C tOOO • the Dock-yard . ) . k;gzo" o•• a And salary of all the 2920 • Officers, &c..: —l-......--.-- Total expense the Milford - - .ke.2,338 11 o Saving, by building a 74-7,un ship at Milford ,C 2.6.2 .77 9 But we will take the contra& price of building so low as 301. per Ton, in which case S.D.. The Milford would have cos( -57, i BO .0 0 Kxpenee, as above; - - 42,338 1I 0 . Baving, , upon this calculation, ?144841 9 0 In point of fa&, if the materials had'not heeh re, ceived from Plymouth, by which, after payment of freight thither, an additional freight amounting to nearly toool. - was iiicurred, by them back to Milford, the expence of building the above-men tioned ship would have been reduced to a sum con sidrnbly under 40,0001. Such is. the " foul Job" which the, calumniator in The Times has the impu 'deuce to*charge Government' with, in forming an establishment. for 'the express purpose of building ships at Milford. The leading Paper of Opposition yestercliy. vented I its usual acrimony against Ministers in general, as it would againStany other set of men who might be in office, unless the Government of the Country were once more consigned. to All the Titlents. But Mr. ARBUTHNOT, a .Gentlemen who has hitherto escaped from the rancour Oiparty,. was yesterday seleaedas a Mark for• the peCuliaf spleen •of the Opposition Journal. We might safely leave the Public to draW their inferences from this unexped ed attack, and we doubt not that they would con clude that Mr. `ARBUTHNOT . must : possess no ordinary share - of merit, since he is at last' honoured with peculiar hostility. But what are the grounds of complaitit against Mr. ARBUTHNOT 1-Why, that lie was employed in a public station at Lisbon, after wards in a diplotnatique capacity at StOckhohn, and - subsequently at the Porte. Is it not very probable that. Mr. ARBUTHNOT tntw have -derived consider able kooWledge from the experience which 'such op portunities afforded him, and by his intercourse-with Foreign Courts have become better qualtfied for a situatiOnat home than'persons who'haVe net had the same advantages ? But the Opposition. Print which ; thus attack a Gentleman because' lie hasfind-an.4p- . portunity'ofseeing Mankind, of observing -the con . datond acquiring a knowledge of the chartaer of !‘ other-Governments,' refers the Public to Mr. T. GRENVILLE'S speech. ,upon the failure of Sir J.` Ductcwotern in the Dardanelles, in justification of ,ts hostility agaihst Mr. - ARBUTHNOT.' TliiS is a very. extraordinary mode of supporting thit hostiliv• A devoted advoCate for All the Talents appeals to the' sentiments of one of that. memorable body, delivered two or three years ago, in defence of its own splenetic declamation.!—Such reference,we believe, is little cal culated to impress the public with any unfavourable opinion of the Gentleman against whom it has been urged. But there is another grievous complaint against Mr. ARBUTHNOT, though certainly not of so much weight as his alleged incompetency for office, grounded upon his experience in Foreign Courts, for he is charged with being an adherent of Lord 'WELLESLEY. Thus we are let into the secret of the attack upon Mr. ARBUTSINOT, for the WEL-, LESLEYS have long been marked out for the - most :acrimonious rage of Party, and to be attached to that 'family is'a sufficient reason for the extension of party' malevolence to every body conneaed with it. „Bor . as the - WELLEsLuvs are *distinguished Iv abilities and integrity, the very circninstance of; being in friendship with them is to be considered as an indi cation of congenial talents and probity. But it is-, somewhat curious that this Gentleman„ who is re-: presented as unfit for office, after all his oppor tunities and experiente;ixas in a confidential situa tion under - Lord GLIENi7ILLE, before he was sent in a.public capacity to:Lisbon, and that lie continued as Ambassadorat. the Porte in compliance with the express desire -of Lord - HewreK, who; as wellsa‘ Mr. Fox, avowed .his high. satisfaaion at Mr. ,AR' BUTHNOT'S: success in reducing the influence of France in that quarter. So that, as it is said in a re"' spetable Morning Print of this day, 'Mr. AEmyra itoz might ,as 'well, be considered -as an adherent of f Lord GREY'S as of Lo gc).-We4risLEY; but it W ould not suit the,Opposition Journal, to allude to Lord Howicx. in -the present- instance, and the WEL' LESLEY family axe Upon alt occasion's to be dragged .in for Opposition ran - coin. We unlit not to , conclude without,oLleriing, that Mi. A itanTo - NOT, iS diStifigiVaS for aciive taleuts. and -Or ,;... . . steal acquirements, 'as well as for his gentleman ! ! manners; for his' unassuming mildness, and for. the peculiar esteem;and regard - of all.Qtio:know him' and having said thisj . if -Will .not be deeniidsurprising that he shoUld fall tiiider - th.edispleasure:tif men who seem to have lost all*Sekse' of . de - cori; - m, as well as of candouriand justice i !jni.the viokuce of,rpteitical disappointment ancHelAir'. .j • 4.1) • The Transport Boaid have given order's to thcir re" speCtiw . agents , at the different. potts.:lo .get; ready to send to.'Wcheren . ,. to•bririg away the g4 r " risen 'and' stbres , '; iireOratory' to •givittg'np the-031 altogether. "Tile transports which were ready lip se' trona the: Docierts,;•witil tribops,on:lloarci,, flbr ten; have also been - countermanded: ?Si • - , ,,Yeetetday afreraoott a Cabinet Council , was held ai !Ike preigu Office, which was Attended 'by•th e 151iniing • Metithas Ldtip * '" Cif ANG . gr''' °3 „! EarlsTATHuttsT,'tivglal.ooL, OAMDEN,,,CHAV I %.: and .I•IIkRoWRY Tierd6lV.l-UtoitAvE.; linitikeCH. A CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. Letters, from Cadiz ,mention thal7Lord nen sham. lfad'adived . here; on 'his progres4 to Malta , . enter into'a'nuptl4j erigageniant with one of the i 4. islanders of that.settletnent.. .V i e have received. letters from Cadiz to the 3 15 t ult. of one of vhich the following is an eiaraa Ckt:ka,,_0.cT....30. 7 -Whate%er alteration sy' take place, it is an undoubted fact than some ve'Y mportant changei will soon taice_ place in the Govaui ,ment here; and we are now in a condition in v 6 J ic ,' it may be_ said that . any _change would be for theb. t , e ,;; Worse the: affairs of :this country could have been conducted.. The Junta remains ineC t ' V ' at Seville. .Why they are so they best know the me Selves.; but while they sleep calumny is a wake.'r The Marquis of Wellesley has already delayed 1114 departure for some time, and a longer period is e" pected to elapse before he takes his departure fqr England. But after all, the alterations May only talked of to quiet .the people. The main part o ' , the Government is adverse to any change. With - good rulers, the Spanish people are capable of doing allY thing, and' it may not be long ete .you see viiat they can perform. We hope, at least, that the Mar quis P E LA ROMANA, who possesses the love and confidence of Spain, will be placed at the head of t h , ° •Junta,and that three or four of the'Member s . wil l be disfilaced. On our army, thank Heaven, we c'a` i as yet rely ; though, tliey.have been beaten, they ar e , not conquered. In the capital the'enerny is fear cLl and hated." " • - . . The following' is inserted from the Cork Paper s ' Extract of a Letter from Brigadier-General GO / e BELL :—" You will see by the Papers what we a t about in Spain, and probably hear of the credit g ait ; ed by our friends, the fusileers. I assure you O e d was not 'enough said of them p they all beha ve e 'nobly. Sir WilliaM MYEils and .ACHNIIITY 1)3 % immortalized themselves. When the regiment 0 1, hard ru pressed, they took the colours from the 9 01) % terns that carried them, and confirmed the co their resolution to defend them, until the 53d refit, e ment came to their support, when those two. .corps , Opt .500 men each), charged • SGBAsTIA;O; column of 10,000, drove them off, and tOO '1,,, pieces,of-cannon. Sir WILLIAM MYERS is the 01"4 son to the late highly respected, Lieutenant-Ge llo !:f of,that name,'w ho died when Commander in in' the WeSt-lndies, • in the year 1805, equally lOvennd lamented." .• The 2d West York Militia have marched into Portsmouth garrison. The 3d Royal 1: b ani:1 6 , 1411 " from Gosport; are marched` into Sussex. . m et Nearly twenty artillery waggons from Ring are on their way to the Tower for ammunition.